Heading into the November presidential election, one of the biggest issues on voters' minds is the economy. According to a new poll, 73% of Americans say strengthening it is their top concern.
  • ralphio@lemmy.world
    23·
    10 months ago

    No one who feels like they can’t purchase a house is gonna say the economy is good. Very simple concept.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    81·
    10 months ago

    Yep. Just like it was in Germany in 1933. Think about what happened back then…

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      10 months ago

      They voted a genocidalist who also happened to have some big industry projects that revived the economy.

      Not really a great comparison considering both POTUS options are genocidalists with pork barrel projects that won’t actually revitalize the economy.

      • Treczoks@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        But only one has an openly fashist agenda. And it pains me to see that Americans know so little about world history that they don’t recognize this.

        • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          10 months ago

          It’s earily identical to the 1932 election candidates.

          Hindenburg was the centrist incumbent, he didn’t go around publicly calling for genocide like Hitler did, but then he placed Hitler and some other Nazis in key leadership positions because he wanted to ally with his party, and two years later Hitler seized power after his death.

          Biden has never called for a genocide, yet he has been actively funding one for 8 months while all the progressives in his cabinet are quitting. He seems unbothered by an election loss to Trump so long as the Pentagon’s foreign policy succeeds. I wouldn’t even be surprised if he dies in the next 2 years considering his health and stress of being president.

          People don’t understand that Trump is a symptom and not a cause of the system. Even if he loses this election or dies or is disqualified, another equally or even more insane Republican will take his place. Meanwhile Democrats have refused to actually pass sizable progressive policies for 30-40 years. Biden only got to make his $15 minimum wage promise for only federal employees via an executive order because the party fell apart in congress with an actual bill. This will only lead to more republican voters.

          Part of the issue is two party politics, but another part is the DNC refusing to combat fascism because surpsise surpise their candidates are funded by huge megacorp lobbyists who want to protect their corporate interests. Biden winning will not fix the problem, and 4 years down the line we will be faced with the exact same scenario.

          • Treczoks@lemmy.world
            2·
            10 months ago

            Part of the issue is two party politics

            Which is also just a symptom of a FPTP election system. To get anywhere, this has to go first.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 months ago

    “the economy is great blah blah blah.” Fuck you, make food and rent cheaper, then I’ll believe that the economy is doing well.

  • sunbytes@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 months ago

    What the media and people with money call the economy is a different thing to what everyone else calls the economy.

    But it’s really useful for them to pretend it’s the same thing.

    They think of it as “our wealth” and we think of it as “everyone’s wealth”.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
    21·
    10 months ago

    The problem with inflation is that the cat can never go back in the bag. Sure, the Fed says they have inflation “under control” at the moment, but it’s still way higher than where pre-covid projections predicted it would be at this time, and real wages have not nearly caught up to the increased prices that literally everyone who earns a paycheck for a living is feeling right now. High cost of groceries and gas will never go back to the way they were, and no matter who ends up sitting in the Oval Office next January, they won’t be able to change that fact.

    Workers across the country need to wake up and realize that they outnumber the owner class 10,000 to 1. A general strike could grind the entire nation to a halt and then they’ll start listening to what we have to say. The politicians in Washington have already signaled that they don’t care if average people can’t make ends meet and nobody is coming to save us, so we have to take matters into our own hands using the tools proven to work time and time again - worker organization.